Multigenerational laboratory culture of pelagic ctenophores and CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing in the lobate Mnemiopsis leidyi

Ctenophores are direct developers that reproduce continuously beginning very early after hatching

(2022) Allison Edgar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A sticky thicket of glue cells: A comparative morphometric analysis of colloblasts in 20 species of comb jelly (phylum Ctenophora)

(2021) Nicholas D Leonardi   CIENCIAS MARINAS

Krüppel-like factor gene function in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi assessed by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing

(2021) Jason S. Presnell et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Rooting the Animal Tree of Life

(2021) Yuanning Li et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Hidden diversity of Ctenophora revealed by new mitochondrial COI primers and sequences

(2021) Lynne M. Christianson et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A chromosome-scale genome assembly and karyotype of the ctenophore Hormiphora californensis

(2021) Darrin T Schultz et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Whole-Body Regeneration in the Lobate Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2021) Allison Edgar et al.   Genes

Neuropeptide repertoire and 3D anatomy of the ctenophore nervous system

(2021) Maria Y. Sachkova et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Depth- and temperature-specific fatty acid adaptations in ctenophores from extreme habitats

(2021) Jacob R. Winnikoff et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Invasion genomics uncover contrasting scenarios of genetic diversity in a widespread marine invader

(2021) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diffusion tubes: a method for the mass culture of ctenophores and other pelagic marine invertebrates

(2020) Wyatt L. Patry et al.   PeerJ

Par protein localization during the early development of Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests different modes of epithelial organization in the Metazoa

(2020) Miguel Salinas-Saavedra et al.   eLife

Evidence for de novo Biosynthesis of the Luminous Substrate Coelenterazine in Ctenophores

(2020) Manabu Bessho-Uehara et al.   iScience

A ctenophore (comb jelly) employs vortex rebound dynamics and outperforms other gelatinous swimmers

(2019) Brad J. Gemmell et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Still enigmatic: innate immunity in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2019) Nikki Traylor-Knowles et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Modelling the early evolution of extracellular matrix from modern Ctenophores and Sponges

(2019) Graham W. Draper et al.   Essays in Biochemistry

Regeneration in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi occurs in the absence of a blastema, requires cell division, and is temporally separable from wound healing

(2019) Julia Ramon-Mateu et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

CTENO64 Is Required for Coordinated Paddling of Ciliary Comb Plate in Ctenophores

(2019) Kei Jokura et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia

(2018) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Early metazoan cell type diversity and the evolution of multicellular gene regulation

(2018) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

What is a lab animal?

(2018) Ellen P. Neff   LAB ANIMAL

Selection for life-history traits to maximize population growth in an invasive marine species

(2017) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Resilience in moving water: Effects of turbulence on the predatory impact of the lobate ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2017) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The maternal-zygotic transition and zygotic activation of the Mnemiopsis leidyi genome occurs within the first three cleavage cycles

(2017) Phillip L. Davidson et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Collagen IV and basement membrane at the evolutionary dawn of metazoan tissues

(2017) Aaron L Fidler et al.   eLife

Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals

(2017) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Contentious relationships in phylogenomic studies can be driven by a handful of genes

(2017) Xing-Xing Shen et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Mesoderm-Forming Gene brachyury Regulates Ectoderm-Endoderm Demarcation in the Coral Acropora digitifera

(2016) Yuuri Yasuoka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Presence of a Functionally Tripartite Through-Gut in Ctenophora Has Implications for Metazoan Character Trait Evolution

(2016) Jason S. Presnell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The onset of regenerative properties in ctenophores

(2016) Mark Q Martindale   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

(2016) Michal Levin et al.   NATURE

Meeting report of Ctenopalooza: the first international meeting of ctenophorologists

(2016) Joseph F. Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

Developmental expression of “germline”- and “sex determination”-related genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2016) Adam M. Reitzel et al.   EvoDevo

Formation of the Statolith in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2016) Sidney L. Tamm   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

The invasive ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyiposes no direct threat to Baltic cod eggs and larva

(2016) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Phylogenomic Insights into Animal Evolution

(2015) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

High-throughput gene targeting and phenotyping in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9

(2015) Gaurav K. Varshney et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Reproduction rates under variable food conditions and starvation inMnemiopsis leidyi: significance for the invasion success of a ctenophore

(2015) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Independent origins of neurons and synapses: insights from ctenophores

(2015) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

(2015) Davide Pisani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores

(2015) Casey W. Dunn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Morphology should not be forgotten in the era of genomics–a phylogenetic perspective

(2015) Gonzalo Giribet   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Exploring the potential of small RNA subunit and ITS sequences for resolving phylogenetic relationships within the phylum Ctenophora

(2015) Paul Simion et al.   ZOOLOGY

A new Glossocephalus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Oxycephalidae) from deep-water in the Monterey Bay region, California, USA, with an overview of the genus

(2015) WOLFGANG ZEIDLER et al.   ZOOTAXA

Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2015) Kathryn E. Kistler et al.   Cell Reports

Elevating the predatory effect: Sensory-scanning foraging strategy by the lobate ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyi

(2015) Sean P. Colin et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

CasOT: a genome-wide Cas9/gRNA off-target searching tool

(2014) A. Xiao et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Worldwide phylogeography of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA data

(2014) K. M. Bayha et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A customized Web portal for the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2014) R Moreland et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Lithocytes are transported along the ciliary surface to build the statolith of ctenophores

(2014) Naoki Noda et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The T-box gene family: emerging roles in development, stem cells and cancer

(2014) V. E. Papaioannou   DEVELOPMENT

Cilia and the life of ctenophores

(2014) Sidney L. Tamm   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Ambient fluid motions influence swimming and feeding by the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2014) Kelly R. Sutherland et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Carbon content of Mnemiopsis leidyi eggs and specific egg production rates in northern Europe

(2014) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Evidence for Involvement of Wnt Signalling in Body Polarities, Cell Proliferation, and the Neuro-Sensory System in an Adult Ctenophore

(2014) Muriel Jager et al.   PLoS One

Efficient Mutagenesis by Cas9 Protein-Mediated Oligonucleotide Insertion and Large-Scale Assessment of Single-Guide RNAs

(2014) James A. Gagnon et al.   PLoS One

A cleavage clock regulates features of lineage-specific differentiation in the development of a basal branching metazoan, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2014) Antje HL Fischer et al.   EvoDevo

Expression of multiple Sox genes through embryonic development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is spatially restricted to zones of cell proliferation

(2014) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   EvoDevo

DNA targeting specificity of RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases

(2013) Patrick D Hsu et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi: a new view of ctenophore photocytes

(2012) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Independent specialisation of myosin II paralogues in muscle vs. non-muscle functions during early animal evolution: a ctenophore perspective

(2012) Cyrielle Dayraud et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MicroRNAs and essential components of the microRNA processing machinery are not encoded in the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2012) Evan K Maxwell et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transitions of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora: Lobata) from a native to an exotic species: a review

(2012) J. H. Costello et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

(2012) M. Jinek et al.   SCIENCE

Lim homeobox genes in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi: the evolution of neural cell type specification

(2012) David K Simmons et al.   EvoDevo

New insights on ctenophore neural anatomy: Immunofluorescence study in Pleurobrachia pileus (Müller, 1776)

(2011) Muriel Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Extreme mitochondrial evolution in the ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyi: Insight from mtDNA and the nuclear genome

(2011) Walker Pett et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Rapid evolution of the compact and unusual mitochondrial genome in the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei

(2011) Andrea B. Kohn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of the TGF-β Signaling Pathway and Its Potential Role in the Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2011) Kevin Pang et al.   PLoS One

Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea Limits the Reproduction and Population Expansion of the Newly Invaded Comb Jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2011) Cornelia Jaspers et al.   PLoS One

Nuclear receptors from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi lack a zinc-finger DNA-binding domain: lineage-specific loss or ancestral condition in the emergence of the nuclear receptor superfamily?

(2011) Adam M Reitzel et al.   EvoDevo

Somatic stem cells express Piwi and Vasa genes in an adult ctenophore: Ancient association of “germline genes” with stemness

(2010) Alexandre Alié et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Stealth predation and the predatory success of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2010) S. P. Colin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expression and phylogenetic analysis of the zic gene family in the evolution and development of metazoans

(2010) Michael J Layden et al.   EvoDevo

The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

(2010) Joseph F Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

Genomic insights into Wnt signaling in an early diverging metazoan, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2010) Kevin Pang et al.   EvoDevo

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Highly conserved functions of the Brachyury gene on morphogenetic movements: Insight from the early-diverging phylum Ctenophora

(2009) Atsuko Yamada et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Comparative Anatomy and Histology of Developmental and Parasitic Stages in the Life Cycle of the Lined Sea Anemone Edwardsiella lineata

(2009) Adam M. Reitzel et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Ctenophores

(2008) Kevin Pang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Developmental expression of homeobox genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2008) Kevin Pang et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Insights into the early evolution ofSOXgenes from expression analyses in a ctenophore

(2008) Muriel Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE